Asian soul food restaurant Xiao Bao Biscuit in Charleston been written up in Southern Living and Food and Wine Magazine. The ownership team is considering a move to Asheville.

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Asheville may turn its increasingly tight culinary connection to Charleston into a boon for the area. Xiao Bao Biscuit, Charleston's immensely popular Asian soul food restaurant, is currently eying Asheville.

The restaurant serves dishes from China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam, all which fall under the realm of Asian comfort food - the restaurant's website insists the eatery is inspired by "grandmothers everywhere."

Xiao Bao Biscuit's sous chef, Patrick O'Cain, emphasized that expansion into Asheville is "purely speculative" at this point. "But I think it's kind of a ...